- Supervisor: Prof. Annemie Bogaerts
- Research environment: PLASMANT
- Applications within Theme 2 should focus on one or more of the following gas conversion applications which are crucial to advance plasma-based sustainable chemistry: CO2 splitting into CO and O2, CH4 conversion into olefins, H2 and valuable carbon (e.g., C-black or C-nanotubes), the combined CO2 and CH4 conversion (dry reforming of methane, DRM) for syngas production, N2 fixation into NH3 or NOx, NH3 cracking for H2 formation, and plastic waste valorisation. Plasma technology is indeed gaining increasing interest for various sustainable chemistry applications, by the electrification of chemical reactions.
- The expected results will be either the development of novel fully-coupled computational fluid dynamics simulations with integrated plasma chemistry to gain detailed insights in the underlying mechanisms, or the development of novel plasma reactors, with improved reaction performance in the lab, or the combination of both, for the above applications.
